LIVE: Nitish Kumar wins Bihar Assembly floor test with 131 votes

Backed by the BJP, Nitish Kumar returned as the Bihar chief minister for the sixth time barely 16 hours after his dramatic resignation that dented Opposition's unity which could have a bearing on the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi was also sworn in, and would be the deputy chief minister.

Kumar, 66, will seek a trust vote during a one-day special session of the Bihar Assembly convened at 11 am today after Bihar Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi asked him to prove his majority on the floor of the House on July 28.

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Nitish Kumar wins Bihar floor test, 131 votes in favour, 108 against.

Secularism should not be used to justify corruption. Won't support people who make money through wrong ways: Nitish Kumar

Would like to thank Congress and RJD, if Tejashwi had resigned I would not have been here: Sushil Modi

Floor test begins in Bihar Assembly.

Yogi Aditynath and some BJP leaders have serious cases registered against them, Nitish ji will you ask all of them to resign: Tejashwi Yadav

Nitish Kumar never spoke to me about my resignation,I too was thinking that he does not want me to resign: Tejashwi Yada

We did not put any pressure on the Chief Minister ever: Tejashwi Yadav

Everything was completely planned, the way Nitish Kumar gave resignation is saddening: Tejashwi Yadav

People of Bihar have suffered immensely: Tejashwi Yadav

Ruckus inside Assembly.

Sushil Modi should be ashamed of what he has done: Tejashwi Yadav

Nitish Kumar got seven seats in 1995 when he fought alone and in 2014, he was reduced to two seats: Tejashwi Yadav

RJD and Congress tried to save the political image of Nitish Kumar: Tejashwi Yadav

Nitish Kumar has betrayed the 2015 mandate. Mandate was for 5 years and it was against the BJP: Tejashwi Yadav

All this drama to protect image of one person: Tejashwi Yadav

Stormy scenes being witnessed both inside and outside the Bihar Assembly.

Voting to happen through voice vote.

This is death of democracy. All that is happening is against the mandate: Tejashwi Yadav

Nitish Kumar presents trust vote.

Patna High Court said, on petition challenging formation of a new government by Nitish Kumar's JDU with BJP, hearing not possible before July 31st, Monday.

JD-U's return to the NDA fold after four years by walking out of the Grand Alliance less than two years after being in power did not go down well with a section of the party with two MPs including MP Veerendra Kumar openly criticising Kumar's decision.

The halfway mark lies at 122 and the BJP-JD-U combine amounts to 124. But the slender margin, Nitish's party believes, will be turned into a massive support when MLAs from other parties break rank and back the new regime with the same chief minister "Mr Clean" at the helm.